When I was a kid, I just about hated my friends who were lucky enough to live close to parks with swings. When I was a teenager, my Mom went broke thanks to my Dad, and we ended up moving into a ghetto trailer park but the silver lining on the cloud... it has a perfect swing set.
At least twice a week I would get my MP3 player, head phones and go to the park... sit on the swing and listen to music. I would sit for up to 4 hours just thinking about life and listening to music. It was a different world, back and forth, song after song, watching the sunsets, the swing set faced them perfectly.
I would navigate through hundreds of thousands of leaves in order to stare at the autumn sky and watch the leaves fall, trudge through 3 feet of hard packed snow to stare at the beautiful winter stars, endure heat and humidity just to watch the summer sunsets, heavy rain or snow or even hail, just to sit there and go off into la-la land...
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Oh good lord, the swings...
When I was a kid, I just about hated my friends who were lucky enough to live close to parks with swings. When I was a teenager, my Mom went broke thanks to my Dad, and we ended up moving into a ghetto trailer park but the silver lining on the cloud... it has a perfect swing set.
At least twice a week I would get my MP3 player, head phones and go to the park... sit on the swing and listen to music. I would sit for up to 4 hours just thinking about life and listening to music. It was a different world, back and forth, song after song, watching the sunsets, the swing set faced them perfectly.
I would navigate through hundreds of thousands of leaves in order to stare at the autumn sky and watch the leaves fall, trudge through 3 feet of hard packed snow to stare at the beautiful winter stars, endure heat and humidity just to watch the summer sunsets, heavy rain or snow or even hail, just to sit there and go off into la-la land...
*sigh*